The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so livethat his happiness shall dependas little as possible on external things.- Epictetus

The best things in life are free.- Anonymous

The youth gets together his materialsto build a bridge to the moon,or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,and, at length, the middle-aged manconcludes to build a woodshed with them.- Henry David Thoreau

As you simplify your life,the laws of the universe will be simpler;solitude will not be solitude,poverty will not be poverty,nor weakness weakness.- Henry David Thoreau

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless hastethat they hurry past it.- Soren Kierkegaard

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,and to serve them one's self?- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have health, you probably will be happy,and if you have health and happiness,you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.- Elbert Hubbard

The really great secret - Happiness is free.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We hardly ever realize that we cancut anything out of our lives,anytime, in the blink of an eye.- Carlos Castaneda

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.- Lao Tzu

Balance activity with serenity,wealth with simplicity,persistence with innovation,community with solitude,familiarity with adventure,constancy with change,leading with following.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personally, I have fond memories of playingon slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing riveras a child and hitchhiking in college.To those who say, "But times are different now,"I reply that statistically life is much safer nowthan in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.What has changed is our attitudes.In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swingor the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -an excuse for gathering autographs.Today that broken leg would be a sourceof outrage and probably lawsuits.I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Priorities - what's really important -health, and doing what one wants to do -it's certainly not money.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All philosophy lies in two words,sustain and abstain.- Epictetus

What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.- Epicurus

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;what else does a man need to be happy?- Albert Einstein

Do not trouble yourself muchto get new things, whether clothes or friends...Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.- Henry David Thoreau

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.- Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity and repose are qualitiesthat measure the true value of any work of art.- Frank Lloyd Wright

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,butterflies and the songs of birds,the crash of storm-driven wavesand the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappyis to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,alone with the heavens, nature and God.Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.- Anne Frank

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